People DO think of next week. They think of last week. But they're doing their thinking from inside their present selves.
Balance depends on the fulcrum. Be solid. Be grounded.
Be whole, and be here.
photo by Sandra Dodd
The more peace and mindfulness I bring in my home, the more all those good things swirl around.
Please take time for reflection. Take time for your mind to be calm and quiet. Take time to be open to input, not busy creating output. Don't respond, think. Take the ideas and let them "be" in your mind and go spend lots of time with your children and consider and observe how the ideas might play out in your own home with your own kids.
Play lightly with these ideas. There's no advantage to getting huffy or angry about it. Just see it as the reality it is. People learn. People change their minds. Knowledge grows. Evidence is reclassified. Language is alive. People who are alive are changing and learning. You can resist that or you can ride it with gusto.
I think everything for me comes back to:
I've used this quote before, but used better titles:
2017: Travel interesting paths
2018: "Why do we do this?" (with the same photo, even)